Do Yourself a Favor: Love Your Wife
Overview
Do Yourself a Favor was written for men…and the women who want to know how men think. Its message is delivered with good humor and great insight and will transform your home into a vibrant and exciting place and help make your marriage come alive. This is a truly practical manual for men who want to become who God intended them to be. The author’s focus is not that you see what is completely wrong with your marriage, “but that you should want to see what’s wrong under the love and light of the Holy Spirit.”
Top Highlights
“Even if you are doing the right thing, many times it is with the wrong attitude. As a result, you are made angry, because you are kept from doing what you like—then you nullify the good you thought you had done.” (Page 11)
“He has failed to realize that his authority to be head of the home comes as a gift of God and requires his own sacrificial giving of himself to his wife and children.” (Page 21)
“The teaching of this Scripture is quite deep—but in a very simple way we could say that when a man obeys God, trusts God, loves God, and serves God, then he is the glory of God. This holds true of the wife. When she obeys, trusts, loves, and serves her husband, then she is his glory. But there is one catch, which most men have difficulty seeing. Unless we become the king, the prophet, the priest, the aggressor, and the initiator in marriage, then the wife has nothing to which to respond. She can only glorify her husband to the degree that he glorifies the Lord God.” (Page 53)
“The home is to be the church in miniature, and someone has said that the mission of the church is hatching, matching, and dispatching. There is the hatching of children from the husband and wife relationship, then comes the matching of their children with Christ and a life mate. This relationship is dispatched into the relationships of this world with others to share, to give and receive. This is God’s divine program, and when we come under the leadership of His Spirit, then we become instruments of love and peace and joy.” (Pages 28–29)
“The only known cure for this cancer spreading across our country is Christ Jesus” (Page 12)
I was reading your book, given to me by my mother, on the plane…It’s a wonderful blessing, and I’m sure Shirley will also want to write you after she’s gotten more of the benefit of your insights and teaching.
—Pat Boone, actor and motivational speaker
- Title: Do Yourself a Favor: Love Your Wife
- Author: Dr. H. Page Williams
- Publisher: Bridge-Logos
- Publication Date: 1973
- Pages: 167
Reviews
3 ratings
Tankiso Letseli
1/8/2019
Claudia Landgraf
6/21/2018
I am in a terrible situation but this book gives me strength. It will help me to get answers how to go on. I thank God for this book because it was written by a man. Sometimes you think men just stop to listen just because you are a woman. I don't have to make a case - the author does it very well. I wish every one a devoted husband who will follow Jesus- take his sacrifical love as an example and become a true priest, prophet and king of their marrige.Mike Leggett
8/7/2013